Robert Horton, Writing About Film

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About This Site

The Crop Duster has two goals. One is to organize links to my critical work: reviews written for The Herald (Everett, Washington) and Seattle Weekly; and public appearances and TV jobs. Selected past work for Film Comment and elsewhere is also linkified. You may also link to my website of 1980s reviews and learn more about my book on Frankenstein and my graphic novel, ROTTEN.

The second goal is to keep a daily record of films watched, annotated with brisk, brief comments. It's a slightly more advanced version of the movie list I kept, in Flair pen, thumbtacked next to my bed when I was twelve.

On KUOW’s “Weekday,” I talk with Steve Scher about Brian Helgeland’s 42, and a few other baseball pictures. The conversation is archived here.

Sunday April 14 at 2 p.m., I’ll be giving a talk for the King County Library System called “A Feast on Film: How Food Becomes Art in Movies,” at the Woodinville Library; it’s free. In this talk illustrated with clips, we’ll look at movies that transform the breaking of bread into an art, and how film conspires with that.

Thursday April 18, I engage in conversation with former Film Comment editor (and longtime Seattle do-everything critic/programmer/teacher) Richard T. Jameson at the Museum of History and Industry for a “History Cafe” session on the subject, generally speaking, of how Seattle’s movie scene evolved from the early arthouse days of the Sixties. The event, which is related to the MOHAI “Celluloid Seattle” exhibit I curated, is free, and begins at 7; more info here.